Cable-hanger.



PATENTE!) SEPT. 29, 1903.

1,1. SMITH. CABLE HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1903.

I y I swenfoz @bungs UNITED STATES Patented September 29, 1903.

JUSTUS J. SMITII, `OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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` SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters `lPatenj; No. 74=,326, dated September 29, 1903.

Application iiled February 4,1903. Serial No. 141,901. (No model.)

which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cable-hangers intended to support electric cables from messenger-wires. In such devices it is important to secure ahanger that will hold firmly, may be readily applied or removed, and is of sufcient strength, cheapness, and durability.

My invention will be understood by refer ence to the accompanying drawings, in which the same parts are indicated by the same letters throughout the several views. Y

Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the hanger as applied to the cable and the messenger-wire, these two latter being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows the hook and lock detached'from the strap, and Fig. 4 is a detail.

A represents a strap, preferably of metal, such as zinc.

B represents the link, which is held in a bight in one end c of the strap A. To secure better hold/the strap may where folded be indented at a0. This link B projects beyond the edges of the strap, as shown in Fig. 1.y

The link B is preferably broken, as at bo, Fig. 3, and the strap is preferably hammered into the space between the ends, as shown at a2, whereby better holding is secured. v The opposite end c' of the strap is'looped over the bar c of the double hook C. This hook has two arms, which are curved, as at c2, aud'terminato in tongues c', which tongues are adapted to pass through the U-shaped'portion of the loop, which projects beyond the edges of the strap, as shown in Fig. 1.

D represents the messengerwire, and E the cable.

hook C and is lapped far enough so that when in positionit will rest on the messenger-wire, as shown in Fig. 1. The strapis drawn taut around the cable E, as shown in Fig. 1, is passed back of and then over the messengerwire D, the tongues c are inserted in the link B, and the hook is pushed forward to the position shown in Fig. 1. The weight of the cable will now tend to cause the hook and link to bind the strap firmly around the cable E, while at the same time the'pressure on the folded part a of the strap will cause the same to bind and prevent` slipping. Thus it will be seen that the hanger once applied will tend to lock itself iirmly to the cable, and yet will slide freely along the messenger-wire.

In order to remove the hanger, it is only necessary to lift the cable slightly, to push the tongues of'out of engagement with the loop B, 'and the strap may be readily removed from the cable and from the messenger-wire. Y

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. The combination with a cable and a messenger-wire, of a link, a strap folded over the central portion of said link, and having its free end bearing against said cable with a fold in the other end of said strap, havingits free end bearing on said messenger-wire, and a double hook pivoted in said latter fold, and having curved tongues projecting through the ends of said link at either side of said strap, substantially as described.

2. A cable-hanger, comprising a link made of a single piece of wire withA its ends spaced apart at approximately the center of one side of said link, a strap Afolded over the central portion of said link, and having the fold pressed into the space between the ends of said wire, and a double hook secured in a fold in the other end of the strap and provided with curved tongues passing through the ends of the link projecting beyond the sides of the strap, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- JUSTUS J. SMITH.

Witnesses: g

WILLIAM A. WALSH,

JQHN F. BRENNAN. 

